Bangladesh students \\\'safe\\\' in Ukraine\\\'s Luhansk

Bangladeshi students in the trouble-hit Ukraine’s Luhansk City are ‘safe’ and they are attending classes, the students’ leader and Dhaka’s Moscow mission say. Rumours ran high in Dhaka that some Bangladeshi students were stranded in the city and trying to find a safe exit. There is no Bangladesh mission in Ukraine. The Moscow mission oversees the eastern European country. ‘We are safe. We did not face any problem,’ Florida Francis, President of Bangladesh Students Association at the Luhansk State Medical University, said. She is a fifth-year student in the 6-year course. Francis identified herself as the official representative of the 24 Bangladeshi students studying at the university. The Bangladesh embassy in Russia also confirmed that she was officially representing Bangladeshi students there. The embassy’s Counsellor (education) Andrio Drong said that the rumours were ‘confusing’. He said they did not find any students in trouble. ‘We tried to identify after the news spread in Dhaka,’ he said. ‘Students attended classes even on Monday. We are in constant touch.’ Earlier, the foreign ministry’s director (media) Nripendra Chandra Debnath said that they had instructed the Moscow mission to look into the issue after receiving a call from a student in Ukraine, according to bdnews24.com.